Thursday, 27 February 2020

Good News in History, February 27

80 years ago today, Carbon-14 was discovered by American chemists Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley. It became the basis of radiocarbon dating for determining the age of any archaeological or geological sample. It had a profound impact on archaeology, permitting more accurate dating and  allowed key […]

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